Disgusting savages; list them ALL itt

scumbag city council pigfuckers who want to overturn overwhelmingly popular ballot initiatives

Classic (i.e. terrible) experience on London Transport.

I have a sort-of hearing disability - extreme hearing damage, made from a mix of tinnitus and hyperacusis (oversensitivity to loud noise). It's not technically a legal disability, but it *is* disabling in the literal sense, and I am considered "work disabled", which means my workplace is legally obliged to make sure I'm ok when I'm at the office.

Anyway, I was in Camden Town to see the (excellent!) Goscinny exhibition at the Jewish Museum. When I got back to the station, it was closed for entrances as usual - people getting off can leave the station, but you can't get in - you have to walk to Kentish Town or whatever instead.

Just for the hell of it, I'd asked if they'd make an exception for me and let me down the stairs. "I have a hearing disability and Camden is very noisy," I said. Of course they said no, which wasn't very surprising.

What *was* unusual was the response I got afterwards. One staff member said to me, "It's pretty noisy in Camden market - what are you doing here in the first place?" That was a bit rude, so I asked to speak to the manager. His response was: "You realise it's noisy on the train as well, don't you?"

I guess the suggestion was - as a person with a chronic health issue, I was asking for trouble just for being outdoors in the first place?

9 times out of 10 you should be answering the phone imo, even if just to say you're tied up. could be something important for someone to bother actually making a call these days, and what are you doing that so important that you can't answer the phone? fuck all, that's what. feel like there's a thread in this. i want no part of it.

Having a communication device on your person doesn't obligate you to respond to anyone at anytime who wants to communicate with you

Chuck, have you got a Disabled Person's Railcard? You can get it for hearing issues.

Interesting! It looks like you can only get it for being deaf. My hearing is screwy, but I'm not actually deaf - it's the extra sounds that make it screwy, not the lack of them, of that makes sense. But I'll check out-thanks! I don't really need a discount but it might be useful to swat at TFL people if I need help.

9 times out of 10 you should be answering the phone imo, even if just to say you're tied up. could be something important for someone to bother actually making a call these days, and what are you doing that so important that you can't answer the phone? fuck all, that's what. feel like there's a thread in this. i want no part of it.

What is this horseshit? Fuck off with this "must be available to everyone at all timea!!11!" crap. Once of a time you happily left voicemail messages and waited on a callback. Or wrote a fucking letter.

Dont call me in the middle of dinnertime then send me 3 txts cos I dared not answer my phone because heaven forbid I might be doing something else.

this was a call on my work phone. I get people riding me for things all day while I'm trying to work but the name never comes up, just the number, so I'm kind of obliged to answer it, but more often than not it's nothing that couldn't be written in an email

*ringing

Yeah work desk phones obv slightly different, especially if its your actual job to answer a phone, haha.

Even then tho Ive sometimes let a call through to the keeper cos I'm in the middle of something. They'll call back/send an email if its urgent.

surprised at the ppl who hate their friends and loved ones itt

if you really love someone you should absolutely recognize them as a disgusting savage at least occasionally

My friends and loved ones know I hate phone calls, lol

solidarity Trayce

And I do this for a living! (answer phones. At least partly anyway)

(I still hates it)

There is a lady in the garden next door who's keeps yelling MIAOW MIAOW at her cat every 20 seconds. She doesn't live there but her cat's come over a few fences and she's trying to get him back.

I heard her saying, "I know it's annoying, but this is how I get the cat to come back to me." She's been yelling it for an hour now. The cat has not come back.

Like, the cat is literally at the bottom of the garden, ignoring her.

it sounds like she has a lot to teach you

lol, true

MIAOW MIAOW!

Meanwhile the cat's thinking like "That's not even my dialect of Cat, beeyotch. And anyway what you are saying is meaningless; you're just mimicking the sound. Christ, get one dictionary."

not even a question mark on the miaou ffs

¿MIAOW?

Other day I went to visit my friend who happens to be homeless.

Approached a frat bro who was with a group of his friends and asked him for a smoke.

Bro: “why don’t you try knocking on people’s windows?”

His friend gives me a smoke instead.

I ask the group if they can make sure my friend is okay because she is homeless and especially vulnerable as a woman.

Bro: “we got that covered already”

Talked to my friend today and she said he mocked my voice and manner when I walked away. Of course not to my face because I would’ve rolled the ducker

people who say “do you like the corrs? i like the corrs” when what they mean is “i like that one song they did 23 years ago that you hear when you go to the chemist”

you could have stopped at 'i like the corrs' tbrr

They play music in the chemistsssssss?

it’s called “chemist warehouse radio”

Everyone who looks at this awful weather and is like “oooh I love the heat!” Fuck you, this weather is awful and I would take a million more snowed-out Lidl-broken-into-Marches over a second more of this hell.

The guy on our network server who spells his name with a space at the beginning so his folder appears at the very top.

Good one. “=“ also works

Asterisks work too. I have a folder on my desktop that's labeled *DO NOT DELETE* so that a) it'll always stay in the top right corner of the screen and b) I won't accidentally delete it.

The space is just being sneaky. It takes you, oh, an extra five seconds to figure out what's happening.

They've started playing I Heart Radio channels in the halls at work, and whoever programs the I Heart the '70s channel can suck my balls.

In 2018, I should not be hearing "American Pie" every. single. day.

Also, evidently Paul McCartney only recorded 3 songs in the '70s: Maybe I'm Amazed, Band on the Run, With a Little Luck.

they should really throw "jet" in there

people on Twitter whose argumentative retorts include mentioning how few followers their adversary has in comparison to their own follower count. i've never had this happen to me b/c i don't actually argue with people on Twitter but whenever I encounter it I just can't believe a grown person would actually pull the "you're not even popular, especially not compared to me!" card.

(this post was prompted by observing this behavior from Jonah Goldberg, who is, as always, the worst).

People who walk on the left hand side of the sidewalk

In the U.S., yes. Mightn't it more or press parallel the driving convention elsewhere?

It might.

It does. We walk on the left here, well I mean people walk like idiots wherever they want with their faces glued to their phones actually, but you know.

I pay attention to walking conventions and then willfully ignore them whenever I actually have somewhere to be that isn't behind some trundling doofus on a sidewalk

Savagery question:

When I'm buying meat at the butcher, my butcher always touches the bacon/chicken/raw meat with his bare hands, then gives me my change without washing his hands, so I'm stuck with a bunch of raw bacon cash.

Is this:

a. Savage
b. I should get over myself
c. I should get over myself, and in fact it's not a health hazard at all

accept your meaty reality, but pay on card

My answer is A

Gross, he needs disposable gloves

thats gross but not as actually alarming as handling cash and THEN handling the meat. But it sounds like he is savage as hell and needs correction.

B. Everything you touch or ingest is covered with gross things you don't happen to know about.

The only reason you're bothered by bacon cash is that you know about it. It's possible that the cash you get in change from your local coffee shop was covered in something worse.

The world is filthy and that's why you have an immune system. And your immune system craves exercise to stay healthy.

most money has feces or cocaine residue on it, i heard way back

Dose makes the poison in many ways, tho i am generally of the “something’s poop...it’s almost everywhere” belief. That does not mean you handle money and put it in your mouth or pick your nose, or handle food afterwards without washing.

https://food.unl.edu/food-poisoning-foodborne-illness

Xp

thanks Hunt3r

yw but man i ain't a expert i just surf a lot. and lecture my kids about handwashing.